Posts tagged "quote"
Ordinarily I don’t bother repeating anything Bill O’Reilly says. But this particular whopper is significant because it represents what O’Reilly and Fox News, among others, are doing to the national dialogue.
They’re burying it in doo-doo.
When it comes down to it, they wouldn’t have elected a [bleep]. Because, what’s a [bleep]? A [bleep] is scary. Obama ain’t scary at all. [Bleeps] don’t have beers at the White House. [Bleeps] don’t let some white dude, while you in the middle of a speech, call [him] a liar. A [bleep] would have stopped the meeting right there and said, ‘Who the [bleep] said that?’ I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, ’cuz he ain’t gotta worry about getting re-elected.
Samuel L. Jackson - on why Obama’s philosophical presence had been universally appealing while repeatedly using the N-word.
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that’s out always looks the best.
Will Rogers (via rev-denn)
It was the worst meeting I’ve ever had in my life, honestly.
U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, on her meeting with Edward DeMarco, acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. According to Boxer, DeMarco said “his interest is making sure Fannie [Mae] and Freddie [Mac] do well financially,” not making homeownership more affordable. (via officialssay)
Let each of us put our country ahead of our party, and ahead of our own personal interests.
President Harry S. Truman, State of the Union Address
January 8, 1951
(via ourpresidents)
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I like being able to fire people who provide services to me.
Mitt Romney - (via - Mitt Romney’s unforced error: ‘I like being able to fire people’ - By Jonathan Capehart)
True terror.
a vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who, having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of ‘76, now look to a single and splendid government of an aristocracy, founded on banking institutions, and monied incorporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures, commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry.
Thomas Jefferson - The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1. General Correspondence. 1651-1827
We wouldn’t have an embassy in Iran. I wouldn’t allow that to be there.
Rep. Michele Bachmann, on how she wouldn’t allow a U.S. embassy in Iran if elected president. The U.S. hasn’t had an embassy in Iran in more than three decades. (via officialssay)
Those who are going to be over 21 on November 12th, I ask for your support.
GOP presidential contender Rick Perry, misstating the U.S. voting age, which is 18. Also, the 2012 election is on November 6. (via officialssay)
